Rise of the Ronin - PC performance graphics benchmarks of Graphics Cards and Processors
We have tested the latest game Rise of the Ronins on maximum graphics settings with GeForce RTX and Radeon RX series video cards. We also evaluated the performance and quality of the game's graphics during our tests.
| THE GRAFICAL PART |
This subsection of our review highlights the main graphical aspects of this game. Particular attention is paid to the version of the graphics engine used, the version of the API used, graphic settings and the quality of development of the main visual aspects.
| Supported OS and Graphics API |
Rise of the Ronins combines dynamic combat against the backdrop of the historical Meiji Restoration period with modern rendering technology and scalable graphics settings. The game supports Windows 10/11 (64-bit) and DirectX 12, using SSD for fast loading. Below are the official system requirements, as well as a description of the main differences in image quality at minimum and maximum (conditionally "Ultra») settings.
Rise of the Ronin System Requirements
Minimum system requirements
- Operating system: Windows® 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 or better / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or better
- Memory: 16 GB
- Video card:
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) or better
- AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (8GB) or better
- DirectX: Version 12
- Net: Broadband internet connection
- Disk space: 155 GB (required on SSD)
- Sound card: 16-bit stereo (48 kHz)
- Extra charges:
- With "Lowest" settings and upscale the game usually runs at 1080p/30FPS
- Possible to use Frame Generation to increase FPS
Recommended System Requirements
- Operating system: Windows® 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-10600K or better / AMD Ryzen 5 5600X or better
- Memory: 16 GB
- Video card:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super (8GB) or better
- AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12GB) or better
- DirectX: Version 12
- Net: Broadband internet connection
- Disk space: 155GB (SSD required, NVMe SSD recommended)
- Sound card: 16-bit stereo (48 kHz)
- Extra charges:
- With "Standard" settings and upscale the game is designed for 1080p/60FPS
- Possible to use Frame Generation to increase FPS
| DEVELOPMENT HISTORY |
Rise of the Ronin is an ambitious project from Team Ninja, the studio known for the Nioh series and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. The game was originally announced as a console exclusive for PlayStation 5, but it has now been revealed that The PC release will take place on March 11, 2025. This means that players on Windows will have the opportunity to plunge into the open world of 19th century Japan, taking advantage of all the benefits of modern graphics and high performance.
The game's development began back in 2015, but it was only officially announced in 2022. Team Ninja's main focus was on dynamic katana battles, historical accuracy and non-linear storytelling. Unlike Nioh, where levels were limited and linear, Rise of the Ronin offers open world, where the player can explore towns, villages and battlefields, interact with NPCs and complete quests of their choice.
The PC release comes with additional improvements including: unlocked frame rate, ultra-wide screen support, DLSS and FSR technologies, as well as advanced graphics settings. Team Ninja's experience in porting its games (Nioh, Wo Long) shows that the studio knows how to adapt projects for PC.
| GRAPHICS |
The PC version of Rise of the Ronin offers significant graphical improvements compared to the console release. The game engine already supports modern rendering technologies, but the version for Windows will receive additional settings and optimization.
First of all, the game supports 4K resolution and higher frame rates, which will allow owners of powerful systems to enjoy the smoothest possible gameplay. Unlike the PlayStation 5, where the frame rate is limited to 60 FPS, the PC has the ability to unlocked frame rate up to 120 fps.
Second, the DLSS, FSR and XeSS support will allow gamers with NVIDIA, AMD and Intel graphics cards to increase performance without significant loss of image quality. This is especially important for users who want to run the game at maximum settings, but do not have flagship equipment.
The world detail will also be improved. Textures in the PC version use more a high resolution, which will make the materials of weapons, armor, buildings and the environment more clear. Improved shadows, dynamic lighting and ray tracing (if it is added) will increase the level of realism. The influence of weather conditions will be more noticeable: rain, wind and fog will change the atmosphere of the world in real time.
The developers also worked on the animations. Now the characters' movements look more natural, and the Motion Matching system allows attack, parry, and dodge animations to be seamlessly linked, making combat feel more cinematic and intense.
| GAME ENGINE |
Rise of the Ronin is powered by an improved version of the Team Ninja engine, which was previously used in Nioh and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. However, this time the developers took a big step forward by implementing global illumination technologies, realistic physics and improved NPC artificial intelligence.
The engine now supports dynamic change of time of day, which affects the strategic aspects of the game. For example, some missions may be easier at night, when enemies have poorer vision, and in the rain the surface becomes slippery, changing the mechanics of movement.
The physics model has also been improved. Enemies are now react to hits more naturally, and the weapons leave realistic damage. The combat system is built on parrying, counterattacking and using various types of weapons, from traditional katanas to Bakumatsu era guns.
You can watch on PC faster downloads through the use NVMe SSDs, which will reduce the transition time between locations and reduce delays in the open world. It is also likely that mod support, which will open up new possibilities for customizing characters, weapons and interface.
In addition, improvements concern artificial intelligence. Enemies now analyze player behavior, use cover, and adapt to the player's fighting style. This makes encounters more dynamic and challenging.
| QUALITY |
Minimum settings
In this mode, the game reduces texture resolution and shader complexity, simplifies shadows and lighting effects. The detail of the environment, characters and animation remains sufficient for comfortable gameplay, but the draw distance and saturation of special effects are noticeably reduced. The frame rate is fixed at ~30 FPS in 1080p with active upscaling, which helps owners of mid-range systems achieve stable performance.
Maximum settings
At the highest possible preset, textures and models are displayed in high resolution, and lighting effects, shadows and reflections are processed with greater precision. The stage composition becomes deeper due to additional post-processing (cinematic effects, volumetric particles and realistic fog). The drawing distance increases, and animations look smoother and more detailed. At the same time, to maintain 60+ FPS in 1080p or higher separate resolutions, the screen will need a powerful video card and a modern processor.
| RAY TRACING |
No ray tracing
Without ray tracing, the game uses standard rendering methods, so reflections on water, metal, and other surfaces depend on screen-spatial algorithms and may be "cut off" outside the screen. Lighting and shadows look good, but deep shadow areas or complex object geometry may lack additional depth and naturalness.
with ray tracing
With ray tracing enabled, reflections become more accurate and take into account objects in the entire scene, even if they are not in the camera's field of view. Light rays interact with surfaces more realistically, and in dynamic scenes, it is noticeable how shadows and reflections change at different angles. This image improvement increases the load on the system, so maintaining a comfortable FPS requires fairly powerful hardware.
| TEST PART |
Below you will find a table of equipment that was kindly provided by our sponsors: GIGABYTE, ASUS, Kingston и Deep Cool. It reflects the list of motherboards, video cards, memory modules and cooling systems used in the tests, and also indicates the current configuration of the operating system and drivers.
| Test configuration | |
| GIGABYTE | |
| motherboards | |
| ASUS | |
| motherboards | |
| Video Cards |
ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4070 Ti OC |
| KINGSTON | |
| RAM |
16 GB DDR4 4600 CL19 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 3600 CL16 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR4 4000 CL18 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 5600 CL40 Kingston Fury Beast 32 GB DDR5 6000 CL30 Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB DDR5 7200 CL36 Kingston FURY Renegade |
| Storage devices |
Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD |
| Deep Cool | |
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Cases and cooling |
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| Software configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows 11 24H2 |
| Graphics driver | |
| Monitoring programs | MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta 5 Build 16555 |
All video cards were tested at maximum graphics quality using MSI Afterburner. The purpose of the test is to determine how video cards from different manufacturers behave under the same conditions. Below is a video of a test segment from the game:
Our video cards were tested at different screen sizes 1920x1080, 2560x1440 и 3840x2160 with maximum graphics quality settings. The game has a lock of 120 frames.
Why GameGPU excludes 8GB video cards from tests
1️⃣ The demands of games have grown - even in 1080p on ultra settings 8GB is no longer enoughcausing FPS drops, texture loading, artifacts and even crashes. Our 30 second test does not show all the problems that arise in real gameplay.
* If possible, We recommend selling 8GB video cards while they still have value. Buy new 8GB video cards to play popular and upcoming new games We strongly do not recommend it!
2️⃣ A huge number of video cards - the market offers dozens of models, and support updated tests for allx becomes unreal. We focus on current solutions with 12+ GB VRAM, which really important for gamers in 2025.
3️⃣ We are updating our fleet of video cards - to test the newest models, have to to sacrifice something. Old 8GB video cards have been sold, and in their place were bought current solutions.
* Asking them to return to the tests is pointless - We already have them no and never will be!!!.
| TEST GPU |
In the video card test, the default resolution is 1920x1080; other resolutions are added and removed manually. You can also remove and add any positions of video cards. You can also select any of our test processors from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given video card tests (by default, the most productive solution is selected). The test is carried out on the most powerful CPU in this game and is scaled to other processors, taking into account their testing on NVIDIA and AMD video cards.
- Ultra
- Ultra + RT
When resolved 1920x1080:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 3060.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the level of Adeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 3060.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the Radeon RX 6950 XT or GeForce RTX 4070 level.
When resolved 2560x1440:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 6750 XT or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the Radeon Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti level.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with Radeon-level video cards RX 7900 XTX or GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.
When resolved 3840x2160:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 9070 or GeForce RTX 3080.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the level of Adeon Radeon RX 7900 XTX or GeForce RTX 4070 Ti S.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the GeForce RTX 5090 level.
RT
When resolved 1920x1080:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 3060.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the level of Adeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the Radeon RX 9070 or GeForce RTX 3080 level.
When resolved 2560x1440:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Achieved on Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti level graphics cards.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the level of Adeon Radeon RX 6800 or GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the GeForce RTX 4080 level.
When resolved 3840x2160:
- Average FPS (25 frames): Reached on video cards of the level of Radeon RX 9070 XT or GeForce RTX 5070.
- Minimum FPS (25 frames): Provided by video cards of the level of Adeon Radeon RX 7900 XTX or GeForce RTX 4070 Ti S.
- Comfortable average FPS (60 frames): Possible with video cards of the GeForce RTX 5090 level.
| VIDEO MEMORY CONSUMPTION |
Testing of video memory consumed by the game was carried out by the program MSI Afterburner. The indicator was based on the results on video cards from AMD and NVIDIA with separate screen sizes 1920x1080, 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 with various anti-aliasing settings. By default, the graph displays the most current solutions. Other video cards are added and removed from the chart at the request of the reader.
- Ultra
- Ultra + RT
GameGPU
Resolution 1920x1080:D
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 8 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 5 GB
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 11 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 11 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB
RT
Resolution 1920x1080:D
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 9 GB
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 10 GB
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 11 GB
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB
| CPU TEST |
Testing was carried out at a resolution of 1920x1080. In the processor test, you can remove or add any processor positions. You can also select any tested video card from the list in the drop-down menu, comparing its performance with the given processor test results (by default, the most productive solution from NVIDIA is selected). Testing takes place on the most powerful NVIDIA and AMD video cards and scales to low-end models.
- Ultra
- Ultra + RT
When using NVIDIA video cards:
- Processors for acceptable FPS (not lower than 25 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
- Processors for comfortable FPS (at least 60 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700
- Intel Core i5-10600
When using AMD video cards:
- Processors for acceptable FPS (not lower than 25 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
- Processors for comfortable FPS (at least 60 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- Intel Core i5-10600
RT
When using NVIDIA video cards:
- Processors for acceptable FPS (not lower than 25 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
- Processors for comfortable FPS (at least 60 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- Intel Core i5-10600
When using AMD video cards:
- Processors for acceptable FPS (not lower than 25 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Intel Core i3-10100
- Processors for comfortable FPS (at least 60 frames per second):
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- Intel Core i5-10600
- Ultra + RT
Loading and using streams:
- Maximum load: The game can load up to 24 streams.
- Optimal loading: Uses up to 12 threads as efficiently as possible.
| RAM TEST |
The test was carried out on the basic configuration of Core i 9 13900K with 32 GB DDR5 6400 MHz pre-installed memory. All used RAM was taken as an indicator. The RAM test on the entire system was carried out on various video cards without launching third-party applications (browsers, etc.). In the graphics, you can add and remove any resolutions and video cards as desired.
- Ultra
- Ultra + RT
GameGPU
Resolution 1920x1080:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 11 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 11 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 14 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 14 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
RT
Resolution 1920x1080:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
Resolution 2560x1440:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 12 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
Resolution 3840x2160:
- Video cards with 12 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 16 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 24 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
- Video cards with 32 GB of video memory: consume 13 GB of RAM
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